The stage lights of the cozy venue brightened as the fair-haired chanteuse, Adrienne Haan, slinked onto the stage attired in a black sparkling jumpsuit with matching heels to begin her show. With a ...
After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in an incredibly unstable and chaotic situation. Both the far left and far ...
Jason Lutes first started drawing Berlin, his epic graphic novel about the disintegration of the Weimar Republic, in 1996, when the topic seemed an esoteric choice for an American storyteller. The ...
Ghosts of Weimar Past is an au courant invocation of the cabarets and nightclubs of 20th-century Europe's Sodom & Gomorrah-- namely, the Weimar Republic Berlin. Though life may tire and uninspire you, ...

False echoes of Weimar

It is disappointing to see historian Volker Ullrich put his subject area expertise in service of current political exigency.
L'Ostpolitik de Willy Brandt et de ses successeurs sociaux-démocrates comme chrétiens-démocrates à la chancellerie a consisté à prendre acte du statu quo avec le camp socialiste pour tenter ...
Whether they are on the East or West Coast this fall, American viewers have the opportunity to see a superb exhibition about the Weimar Republic—a multimedia show that is scholarly, in-depth and ...
A Copenhagen exhibition offers a rich view into the creative production and daily life in the Weimar Republic, with its glamour and its grotesquerie. I sat with the poem while music of the era played ...
The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques ...
"We didn’t just want to view Weimar from its ending,” exhibition curator Simone Erpel says Deutsches Historisches Museum/David von Becker When you think of the Weimar Republic, you likely envision a ...
The Komische Oper has reconstructed Jaromir Weinberger’s “Frühlingsstürme,” a show that was virtually erased by Nazi rule in Germany. By Joshua Barone BERLIN — It was an evening in late January 1933, ...
“Since the Weimar debate has continued to repeat itself, albeit with less intellectual brilliance,” Susan Sontag once wrote about the social chaos and unfettered artistic creativity that didn’t end ...